Senior Elementary

The Montessori Language curriculum enhances students’ skills in reading, spelling, comprehension, writing, creative writing, grammar, sentence analysis, literature, poetry, and verbal communication. Students engage with a variety of literature and poetry, studying word families, word origins, and their meanings. Handwriting skills are reinforced through practice, journaling and class work.

Through a “hands-on” approach, children actively discover new concepts, followed by memorization of facts. Concrete learning materials facilitate children in moving towards the process of abstraction with greater ease. The Mathematics curriculum integrates facts, arithmetic, graphs, fractions, proportions, word problems, rounding, averaging, statistics, algebra, and geometry.

In History, students actively explore the concept of time and culture. The curriculum encompasses the creation of the Universe and the formation of the Solar System, the timeline of the Earth, evolution of humans, and the timeline from prehistory to current history.

Children explore physical geography and Earth systems (such as water cycles, formation of mountains, tectonic plates, movements of continents, etc.). We delve into political, cultural, and economic geography, and children discover how the physical changes of our Earth (droughts, climate changes, weather patterns) affect each. Additionally, children learn about atoms and molecules, scientific concepts, and many fascinating facts.

The Biology curriculum provides children with a means of classification. Students explore life systems, such as the human body, respiratory, circulatory, nervous, and digestive systems, as well as cell structure and function. They examine the classification of plants, including their structures and roles, and delve into the classification system of the animal kingdom, studying animal physiology and the functions of internal organs. Students also investigate how animals adapt to their surroundings.

A Montessori aligned STEM and computer curriculum for Grades 4-6 integrates hands-on, inquiry based learning with technological literacy. Montessori principles of independence, self-paced progress and making connections with other curriculum areas are maintained.

Children actively engage in physical activities, games, and sports designed to promote physical fitness, develop motor skills, and encourage teamwork in a non-competitive atmosphere.

We visit local parks, tennis courts, community centres, Milton Arts Centre, and local farms.